Seeking a Fren for the End of the World: Episode 1 - This is Really Just the Beginning
Added 2024-12-11 12:00:10 +0000 UTCIn a new series by Felix, Josh (@ettingermentum), and Spencer, we ask: how did the Republican Party, once the dominant force in American culture for almost a generation, become a group of bowtied cosplayers and rapist streamers yelling about Litterboxes? We trace this development back to the empires built by two men—Paul Weyrich and James Dobson—as well as the failures of one Pat Buchanan.
This episode draws from Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine and David Grann’s “Robespierre Of The Right.” For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking
Comments
This is my third time going through this series and that "hot knifing dog chemo meds" bit stil kills me.
Andy Kraushaar
2025-03-09 13:36:19 +0000 UTCTex!
Scot Forsythe
2025-01-06 03:01:45 +0000 UTCNo, that's your penis.
TheHairyClevage
2025-01-02 09:50:37 +0000 UTCPastor TL Barrett 💞
treat
2024-12-30 14:29:38 +0000 UTCGreat for a Christmas drive home 👌🏽
Edgar Rincon
2024-12-26 03:57:07 +0000 UTCIt’s a bit dry
Eli
2024-12-21 01:00:15 +0000 UTCApologies to the surely excellent work of the others involved but please begin giving ettingermentum the same amount of content appearance/contribution time as is currently allotted to virgil
TLT
2024-12-20 23:19:55 +0000 UTCGreat stuff. Would love to hear more.
Joseph Shields
2024-12-20 18:30:13 +0000 UTC😭 found a copy of one of his parenting books in Chinese at my in laws house. It really horrifies me that the stupidest parts of American evangelicalism are being spread all over the world.
David Woodward
2024-12-20 03:37:15 +0000 UTCRight? Spent 8th grade binging those off their website
David Woodward
2024-12-20 02:58:35 +0000 UTCI was homeschooled until high school, honestly I think it's fine. Just make sure they have ways to make friends and do normal kid stuff with other kids.
Simon Maraya
2024-12-19 02:35:29 +0000 UTCBro Ive seen all of Schaeffer's videos and at one point had a complete volume of books. I read about half of them. I read A Christian Manifesto at least 3 times. Nobody talks about the man but he is critcal in understanding the theology/politics of that era of conservative Evangelicalism. He also looked like an elf and wore lederhosen.
Jennifer Hammerhead
2024-12-19 01:21:18 +0000 UTCFather I stretch my hands at the end?
Jason
2024-12-19 00:38:53 +0000 UTCOh next time listen while watching family guy best clips and mazerunner streamers
Jingle Jangler
2024-12-18 16:46:33 +0000 UTCThe bibliography is 48 pages long 👏🏼
Noahjon marshall
2024-12-18 15:35:05 +0000 UTCThis is so goddamn boring
William J Engelman
2024-12-18 14:51:15 +0000 UTCGreat work, very into this, thank you.
Studio Novaya
2024-12-18 12:06:15 +0000 UTCNot quite; put De Vos into google translate (“the fox” in english) to hear how it’s pronounced in Dutch. Great instance of nominative determinism though
Collin
2024-12-16 08:06:58 +0000 UTCI live like 10 minutes from the Amway world headquarters. "Rich" DeVos went by "Dick" DeVos. I thought you would all like that. Unfortunately his dumbass name is on every other university building in the area so the DeVos family has an open invitation to have their balls licked by honors students two or three times per semester. The DeVos family has been trying to retroactively erase history, that cunt will always be a Dick.
Aaron M
2024-12-15 06:17:03 +0000 UTCHahaha dude he died after my pilled NP mom treated him with ivermectin and hydroxichloroquine or however the fuck it’s spelled
Jalen Onisko
2024-12-14 23:46:55 +0000 UTCFelix, Spencer, and Josh this was awesome. I’m hooked
Alex Weber
2024-12-14 23:30:26 +0000 UTCLoving this
Justin Kase
2024-12-14 22:08:30 +0000 UTC"Enyart opposed mandated vaccinations and mask mandates for COVID-19. He died of COVID-19." lol
drewb
2024-12-14 10:19:35 +0000 UTC“It Follows,” but with James Dobson lol
Jalen Onisko
2024-12-14 07:23:25 +0000 UTCIt’s crazy to know the shit is still around. Hell dude if you guys wanna see a real niche psycho you should check out the pastor of the church we went to. If you get some time do a cursory look at Bob Enyart 👀
Jalen Onisko
2024-12-14 07:22:06 +0000 UTCMay have missed it, did they say this would be a weekly release on Patreon?
Justin Webber
2024-12-14 05:29:00 +0000 UTCI am not still following it! (abstinence) not voluntarily anyway. I’m voluntarily involuntary abstinent wait….
Sisyphus
2024-12-14 05:10:05 +0000 UTCMy current addiction to podcasts probably can be traced back to FoF’s Adventures in Odyssey. Salute to Dobson for introducing me to the audio drama format
Megan
2024-12-14 03:41:31 +0000 UTC"It must've resembled a version of O block populated by lemon party participants" lmao. this is so fucking good you guys
Aaron Dinga
2024-12-14 03:40:45 +0000 UTCi donc Care hes fun
etienne
2024-12-14 01:37:04 +0000 UTCwhy would you wnat to hear what he wants to say, he framed himslef as Mr. Too-Damn-Elections for the apst year and he was 100% wrong on every level about the election lmao
Tyler Sutherland
2024-12-14 01:34:27 +0000 UTCAm I confused or isn't Rich Voss the comedian, Rich Devos is someone else
james lynch
2024-12-14 01:23:04 +0000 UTCOh Felix! I didn't know you cared...
Casey S
2024-12-14 00:43:45 +0000 UTCChrist Felix, it's Paul WHY-rick!
James F LeBlanc
2024-12-13 19:41:08 +0000 UTCIt's their "damp squid"
jepasc
2024-12-13 18:07:40 +0000 UTCMan they love re-numeration, even when reading off a script that says remunerate. I guess they think money is written in numerals so you “re-numer” yourself? It’s so funny to me.
Podcast subscriber 78
2024-12-13 17:56:57 +0000 UTCHe just needs more crystals on his speakers
Instantdumbass
2024-12-13 16:30:01 +0000 UTCNerd
Instantdumbass
2024-12-13 16:29:25 +0000 UTCDamn Unc is cooking fr.
Instantdumbass
2024-12-13 16:28:37 +0000 UTCYou spend money. I rape money. We are not the same.
K H
2024-12-13 16:26:22 +0000 UTCWe love the sicko deep lore. Ran through this a couple times. Once gooning. Once falling asleep post goon sesh. Maybe once more paying attention.
K H
2024-12-13 16:20:30 +0000 UTCThis made my 3rd eye open wide and I discovered swag for the first time
Zachary Wood
2024-12-13 14:27:21 +0000 UTCPastor tl barret: father I stretch my hands
jack dougal
2024-12-13 13:59:58 +0000 UTCWhat’s the title of the outro song?
RDew
2024-12-13 12:25:25 +0000 UTCAh, I like Josh really, I'm just busting balls.
James Roche
2024-12-13 11:40:41 +0000 UTCOk some praises and criticisms: I like the music seques. A good look into how Democrats got spooked into their current political meta. My only gripe: Felix is just not suited to reading a script not written by himself. It's not terrible or anything. I listened to the whole podcast in two sittings. Maybe add a conversation interlude between the scripted stuff?
Khemith
2024-12-13 10:34:12 +0000 UTCDamn this is amazing, Felix and the boys knocked it out of the park.
NitroDickclapp III
2024-12-13 09:30:25 +0000 UTCAaat was some miiiiighty fine a pickin' and a singin'!
Brendan O'Loughlin
2024-12-13 05:48:42 +0000 UTCFelix lookin for Affrin at the end of the world. We love him folks we do
4 Yalies and a dirt strip in Honduras
2024-12-13 04:20:04 +0000 UTCbit disappointed Joshingermentum isn't speaking on this, i really enjoy his Nick Mullen on nootropics drawl
etienne
2024-12-13 03:58:01 +0000 UTCTelling on yourself if you take to heart anything a pollster predicts. He correctly hedged all his wishcasting better than anyone else you read or listened to. Pollsters who "got it right" were saying Elon Musk was going to out charisma Kamala. He got it right. But nobody can accurately gauge how much the American vox populi has suffered and checked out. "Finger prints" The hell does that mean. He's co-author. He's got a byline. Moron
Daffy
2024-12-13 03:36:26 +0000 UTCAudio pedants are the most irritating scum online. Twitch banned them years ago. You're listening on earbuds. Quality details on spoken word like that do not come across on regular speakers. I hope Felix records the next one in the blind man's recording studio in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" just so you'll unsub. Your ears are the manifestation of neoliberal individuality.
Daffy
2024-12-13 03:18:54 +0000 UTCActually laughed out loud a few times. Well written.
Evan Pitkin
2024-12-13 01:06:22 +0000 UTCA corner of history I never cared to read about, since the hilarious media from that time sorta speaks for itself. Thanks Felix
Boaz Corey
2024-12-13 01:03:22 +0000 UTCI'm in music/audio and don't really care enough to care, but it kinda blows me away how low quality the audio is in the chapo world. The spoken human voice is very easy to make sound good these days haha.
Boaz Corey
2024-12-13 01:01:19 +0000 UTCits so crazy cause ive never seen heard or participated in any of these things… closest ive been was 4chan but its a whole world of crazy right wing media. is the mid ass shit i see on tv and internet just “lib shit”?
mariol struga
2024-12-12 23:45:54 +0000 UTCRight? That's basically an admission that the admin refused to take anything on the chin.
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-12 21:31:01 +0000 UTCI was deep in the early altright/fascist movement of Obama's first term. Pat was venerated as the father of the movement
Craig
2024-12-12 21:13:00 +0000 UTCDevos, as in multiple De-evolutions.
Devon Cunningham
2024-12-12 21:08:40 +0000 UTCI like to think they look at the last name and think of the band DEVO and try to pronounce it that way.
Matt James Rich
2024-12-12 20:46:22 +0000 UTCHope he sees this bro
Wesley Campbell Caretto
2024-12-12 20:36:50 +0000 UTCOn top of that I'm 15 mins from Glendale
Etienne
2024-12-12 20:15:29 +0000 UTCThat's such a funny concept. "Actually, the asshole that I'm married tos last name is pronounced De-vaws."
Devon Cunningham
2024-12-12 20:11:01 +0000 UTCHey Felix, I'm more than happy to edit and mix your all of your audio files for cheap. I enjoy the content but I'm so annoyed from not only the phasing on the phasing in episode 892, but now the utterly obvious separate takes with different gain structures and/or mic positioning in this episode. It's distracting for those of us who are even slightly sensitive to this and it's relatively easy to fix. Ive worked in the music industry for +20 years. Please feel to reach out or dm me.
Etienne
2024-12-12 20:10:35 +0000 UTCHow does Felix’s audio quality still suck after a decade? You should actually pay Metro Boomin to fix the file plus you get a good tag on the intro
Ian Baumgart
2024-12-12 19:23:51 +0000 UTCMy sister homeschooled all four of her kids (K-12 basically) - as part of a homeschooling group. She's a Christian, not particularly outspoken, but you would never guess her kids were homeschooled. They've all gone on to public universities, are more or less liberals, and are really unique and interesting kids/adults. I do think she and her kids are kind of an anomaly and nothing like the homeschoolers I knew as a kid. All this is to say, I suppose it can work....maybe... I have two kids who attend NYC public schools and I wouldn't change that. I personally resisted my parents attempt to homeschool me when I was a kid, but ended up going to insanely conservative religious schools instead, which was great...
lars
2024-12-12 18:29:04 +0000 UTCI remember Erik Prince correcting a congressional representative on that when he was testifying about Blackwater atrocities in Iraq.
Michael
2024-12-12 18:24:06 +0000 UTCor Chapo x XTC
lars
2024-12-12 18:11:44 +0000 UTCSame, child of 80's/90's Dobson obsessives - though no family work connection. It's a minor thing but I was hoping we'd get a mention on the ep of Breakaway or Brio magazine - FOTF's teen content rag. If you had a friend who liked Metallica, Breakaway had advice on what to do. Sort of surprised to see it still exists, but also not surprised...
lars
2024-12-12 18:10:17 +0000 UTC"and, if you're listening to this program, there's a good chance it worked so well that you're still following it!"
etienne
2024-12-12 17:53:22 +0000 UTCLol and Kamala tried to revive it through her tagging closer the Cheneys. Brilliant shit by the Democrats.
Sam Zeng
2024-12-12 17:44:27 +0000 UTCif young metro don’t trust you I’m gon shoot you
kron
2024-12-12 17:03:08 +0000 UTCI felt burned for buying into his electoral predictions, but on policy he usually seems to have the right ideas.
kron
2024-12-12 17:02:17 +0000 UTCOh boy, another podcast that makes me wish hell was real
Man2quilla
2024-12-12 16:23:09 +0000 UTCTo Leo Restrepo's point earlier, I feel like the key part of the Stephanie Cutter Podjons interview that no one talked about is the bit where she says "Can you imagine the stories coming out, well that's not what she said in the meeting" to explain the risk of breaking with Biden. It pretty clearly implies that Kamala and her people at least believed that if they campaigned against any Biden policy that he or members of his cabinet would leak negative stories calling her a liar. In a general election against Trump, where "democracy" and "women's lives" where at stake according to the Dems.
Ian H
2024-12-12 16:20:18 +0000 UTCPurina Hall of Fame. One of their very best. So patient, so unattended...
Kyle Strupp
2024-12-12 15:05:18 +0000 UTCThe fingerprints of the disgraced fraud Ettingermentum are all over this one.
James Roche
2024-12-12 14:54:16 +0000 UTCIs this going to be released weekly or are we getting a batch release? I really like the topic and don’t wanna wait 😘
Ric Mahurin
2024-12-12 14:44:01 +0000 UTCThis is a common mistake but DeVos is pronounced Dee-vaws not Dee-vose. Great first episode.
Devon Cunningham
2024-12-12 14:04:45 +0000 UTCReminded me of that propagandhi song that starts with pigs squealing in an abbotoir, which was only marginally more distressing than whatever Stephen Crowder was doing
drewb
2024-12-12 10:33:38 +0000 UTCso good
Dan Nancarrow
2024-12-12 10:14:44 +0000 UTCI’m lovin it
Aaron Lott
2024-12-12 09:14:40 +0000 UTCI think he might've been my first realization that there was a whole world of guys fucking everything up who weren't even in the government and that I was to become accordingly pissed
Michael S. Judge
2024-12-12 09:05:44 +0000 UTCWhat was that Pat Buchanan theme drop at like 28:00? You guys who didn't grow up in a rich Catholic fascist milieu have no idea how large a presence Pat Buchanan was in the millennial teenage Political Guys of the News World pantheon
Michael S. Judge
2024-12-12 09:03:23 +0000 UTCThank you for a series like this!!
Nora
2024-12-12 07:52:35 +0000 UTCSubscribed for this, great insights. As someone that grew up in Grand Rapids, MI. The Devos family have funded every right wing hack for the last century. I wasn’t surprised to hear how far their ties go.
Harrison B
2024-12-12 07:24:15 +0000 UTCMy gf grew up in Colorado Springs, and when she went to an exchange term in Chile, at one point she stayed at an indigenous family with two books: a Bible and a Focus on the Family book
Ale
2024-12-12 07:04:27 +0000 UTCAnother homeschooler checking in. Please send your kids to regular school.
J C
2024-12-12 06:22:55 +0000 UTCSame, it was actually kind of infuriating hearing the old shit's voice again
J C
2024-12-12 06:15:29 +0000 UTCExcellent
R0wdy161
2024-12-12 05:15:52 +0000 UTCComing from a guy who was homeschooled 1.5 years by liberal parents - send them to school. I was set back years socially. (I’m great now and wouldn’t change anything but without the benefit of hindsight the choice would be clear to me.)
J.P. McD.
2024-12-12 04:50:18 +0000 UTCAwesome guys
Jake Ginsburg
2024-12-12 04:10:05 +0000 UTCNah the movement Conservatism of the Reagan era actually collapsed around the 2000s but tbh that's insider sports shit for the political cranks out there, to be fair
Ghordo
2024-12-12 04:02:53 +0000 UTCReal good work
Sam Schick
2024-12-12 03:47:35 +0000 UTCMemento mori
KS
2024-12-12 03:45:19 +0000 UTCVery dope, very cool Felix!
Tim Mullen
2024-12-12 03:39:31 +0000 UTCIGY by Donald Fagen too
Kelly magera
2024-12-12 03:20:23 +0000 UTC“Trent Lot of Elvira fame” lololol
KS
2024-12-12 03:09:42 +0000 UTCIn listening to this, I realized that I don't think I ever actually heard the original "read my lips" speech, just the people making jokes later. That was such a catchphrase for a while.
Laura
2024-12-12 02:36:42 +0000 UTCbanger. been listening to blowback, and i LOVE this style of series.
lemao
2024-12-12 01:50:33 +0000 UTCI was raised on that Dobson shit. My step dad even worked for Focus On The Family. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish pain upon James Dobson
Jalen Onisko
2024-12-12 01:42:46 +0000 UTCLoved the El-vi-raaa echo
cuttino mobley
2024-12-12 01:41:30 +0000 UTCseries artwork kinda rules
boo
2024-12-12 01:40:54 +0000 UTCReal ones got that Rich Vos joke
Craig
2024-12-12 01:34:31 +0000 UTCHell yeah love Spencer
Sam Thomas
2024-12-12 00:39:30 +0000 UTCI love the guys but it's killing me to hear them always say "renumerate" when they mean to say "remunerate"
jepasc
2024-12-12 00:28:37 +0000 UTCSuch s great episode. Looking forward to all the subsequent ones. Thank you for the peerless collab.
Rene Saller
2024-12-12 00:28:15 +0000 UTCIt's Chronological. We are only to early 2000s and the movement fell to the way side during that time.
billbo
2024-12-12 00:26:59 +0000 UTCwho was choosing the music? i'd guess spencer or chris based on the taste. nice XTC track
memorymachine
2024-12-12 00:12:45 +0000 UTCah so Dobson inspired Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015
Andrew Cross
2024-12-11 23:38:31 +0000 UTCThis shit fire bro
Munir hakim
2024-12-11 23:20:01 +0000 UTCTwo fail movements fighting for votes in a fail state. Whoever won the election, it doesn't prove the party's vitality, it proves the expiration of a country's political institutions
interzoa
2024-12-11 23:13:10 +0000 UTCXtra Eloquent felix is cool. Truly 😎 a voice made for poetry. ❤️
Zeebes
2024-12-11 23:10:46 +0000 UTCSend them to school man. Basically 0 ppl have the bandwith to fully teach 6 different subjects. If they start spouting nonsense, correct them, put the right book in their hands, but you are likely leaving something out yourself or at the very least de-socialising them
B.C.
2024-12-11 22:59:58 +0000 UTCNever thought I'd see Chapo x Manic Street Preachers lol
B.C.
2024-12-11 22:58:02 +0000 UTCCame here to find this comment. Having the same experience. There are a number of highly concentrated references and metaphors and jokes very close together, the way you’d normally find see in a pithy essay (with interesting footnotes). EDIT: I’ll say it does get a lot better.
Podcast subscriber 78
2024-12-11 22:37:22 +0000 UTCI grew up in rural South Carolina, and anywhere you went as a child has focus on the family children's magazines, they were everywhere. Every doctor, dentist, and divorce lawyers office I was in as a kid had them, hell My pediatricians office played videos from them as well on their early flat screen TV's that I found so cool. Haven't thought about that in years and hearing "focus on the family" hit me like a sleeper agent hearing his activation code
James Fair
2024-12-11 22:19:39 +0000 UTCExcellent music choices. Looking forward to the rest of the series
Brett Mercer
2024-12-11 22:19:29 +0000 UTCAmazing. I only wish this one was split into two or three longer episodes. For any dumb-dumbs like myself: “fren” is apparently slang for “Far Right Ethno-Nationalist”
Eric_WVGG
2024-12-11 22:12:56 +0000 UTCComeback zinc!
Nixper
2024-12-11 22:10:42 +0000 UTCFraming this as an obituary for a failed movement seems uh, bold given how election went? Or have I missed something?
Christopher E Musgrave
2024-12-11 22:09:15 +0000 UTCIt was good. I enjoyed it. I’ll be listening to the rest of the series for sure. I think the style of it especially at the beginning can be distracting from the point by being verbose, spoken quickly, and having a lot of video game/pop culture references. I find myself having to press the rewind 10 sec button a lot to catch the main point.
Brandt
2024-12-11 22:07:58 +0000 UTCThey had a cartoon, if you ever feel like wanting to tear out your eyes and burn them
Christopher E Musgrave
2024-12-11 22:07:17 +0000 UTCRepressed homosexuality is the basic engine of history
Christopher E Musgrave
2024-12-11 22:03:53 +0000 UTCNerd
billbo
2024-12-11 21:39:13 +0000 UTCCloseted bi/gay usually.
billbo
2024-12-11 21:38:37 +0000 UTCBig ups Felix
Jesse Svetlich
2024-12-11 21:33:16 +0000 UTCThis Felix guy is super interesting, they should have him on the pod more often
Max Monlux
2024-12-11 21:32:22 +0000 UTCThis is the start of a great series! Thank you Felix!
It’s corn, it’s got the juice.
2024-12-11 21:22:34 +0000 UTCWhy do people have such weird fucking beliefs man. All these men are freaks. It baffles the mind to even think people connect with their ideas
nat
2024-12-11 21:22:17 +0000 UTC"My opponent now says he will raise [taxes] as a last resort or a 3rd resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into!" 🔥 Full Bush bars right there.
Schwartz666
2024-12-11 21:00:02 +0000 UTCHappy birthday!
linguinitortellini
2024-12-11 20:45:24 +0000 UTCThis is the first time I’m hearing of this.
JP
2024-12-11 20:27:32 +0000 UTCgiddy up
JP
2024-12-11 20:26:30 +0000 UTCHell yeah
JP
2024-12-11 20:25:41 +0000 UTCMight I recommend never commenting on anything ever again?
A.C. Miller
2024-12-11 20:10:42 +0000 UTCBoth an incredible episode and an incredible birthday present to me lol. Can't wait for the rest of the series
Liam Sweeney
2024-12-11 20:01:45 +0000 UTCwho cares about pronouncing politicians names correctly?
Jonathan
2024-12-11 19:49:32 +0000 UTCLove the Blowbackian opening starting with the Crowder humiliation ritual. A great use of the format
Brendan Kneeland
2024-12-11 19:40:53 +0000 UTCIts like a prequel to all that Warhammer lore (probably idk)
interzoa
2024-12-11 19:23:55 +0000 UTCYou can pronounce names any way you want, nerd
Budget Hireling
2024-12-11 19:23:42 +0000 UTCYou ever heard Felix say the word “alien”? He just has a folksy accent leave him alone
Smooth Shrek
2024-12-11 19:13:45 +0000 UTCYou’re talking about a guy who still mispronounces Kamala’s name
Maicol
2024-12-11 19:12:06 +0000 UTCHey Travis! What time does Felix start talking?
Fernslinger
2024-12-11 19:07:18 +0000 UTCI home school our kids - mostly because the schools in our area are poor quality and our kids have higher needs than what the schools can offer. There are a few families I know that home school that aren’t crazy, but most are reactionary Christian’s or reactionary woo-woo RFK types. It’s hard to know what to do with our kids -send them to the terrible public school or home school them and run the risk of it hurting them socially in the long run.
T
2024-12-11 18:58:43 +0000 UTCJust started this, and the first ten minutes are honestly kind of embarrassing . . . How does Felix not know how to pronounce Weyrich and Viguerie’s names? Did he not watch or listen to any interviews with them that included introductions, nor any other A/V media referencing them? And, how does no one else catch the issues during editing? If you guys are going to make dedicated, in-depth podcasts, you gotta make a de minimis effort to get basic shit like subjects’ names right.
Baduncadonk
2024-12-11 18:49:22 +0000 UTCFelix, this is so fire. Abstinence Only at work.
Chuck Skooch
2024-12-11 18:46:13 +0000 UTCGod we gotta get a soundtrack for this series put together, some of the best transition music we’ve had from a Chapo ep/series yet
The Out
2024-12-11 18:44:37 +0000 UTChell yea this rocks. thanks felix
Matthew
2024-12-11 18:33:12 +0000 UTCSounds awful. I wasn't aware of it, but I think my parents hit the eject on FoF before then.
demonsweat
2024-12-11 18:17:57 +0000 UTCExcellent
Kentucky Shitlib
2024-12-11 18:11:51 +0000 UTCThe Earworm has escaped containment again! God help us all....
Schwartz666
2024-12-11 18:07:58 +0000 UTCI like ettingermentum but I found the 2022 praise of him extremely annoying because there’s guys out there spewing every possible opinion, so of course some are guaranteed to be right after the fact.
J.P. McD.
2024-12-11 17:45:31 +0000 UTCDid you ever listen to ‘Adventures in Odyssey’? Only exposure to it is through relisten episodes talking about it on ‘Worse of all possible worlds’ podcast.
Duncan Fraser
2024-12-11 17:42:14 +0000 UTCplease tell me you give spencer a mic in one of these
kitty pavlova
2024-12-11 16:39:29 +0000 UTCMax Blumenhal’s Republican Gommorrah gives a very good account of the truly wicked pastoral care-direct mail-political influence machine.
Erik Weissengruber
2024-12-11 16:28:20 +0000 UTC51:08 that was OD
Sergei Filipov
2024-12-11 16:26:17 +0000 UTCThis was made when we all knew Trump & the freak GOP would be ascendant in 2016 and remain unvanquished by 2024.
Matelda
2024-12-11 16:16:47 +0000 UTCI dunno I'm gonna listen to Episode 2 before I decide
Matelda
2024-12-11 16:11:11 +0000 UTCSo Stoked on the Don Fagen IGY cut in E1. I feel seen.
Loren Huggins
2024-12-11 16:06:05 +0000 UTCHuge grin on my face hearing XTC, even though that's their worst song
Ian H
2024-12-11 15:57:44 +0000 UTC> Turns out being a freak wins Trump is one of the most unpopular political figures in the modern era. It was just that Kamala was even more unpopular than him. You are delusional if you think JD Vance represents a more coherent and potential successful political movement than movement conservatism.
Sam Zeng
2024-12-11 15:54:03 +0000 UTCFelix is so brilliant
Meadow Green
2024-12-11 15:43:11 +0000 UTCThis that kinda series you gotta sit and listen to with your browser open
Kyletrynadip
2024-12-11 15:37:31 +0000 UTCFirst
Aiden
2024-12-11 15:20:43 +0000 UTCThe section on James Dobson made me realize some things about my childhood. Holy shit.
Pat Z
2024-12-11 14:55:07 +0000 UTCLuigi from UEG
calvin kilby
2024-12-11 14:54:42 +0000 UTCBuilding a left political Acapella group to perform at events: Lu-i-gi! 🎵
Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice
2024-12-11 14:51:37 +0000 UTCWrong. Trump and the GOP won this election because of inflation and calories, first and foremost. The Democrats didn't have any ethos whatsoever beyond being The Party of Governance(TM), but what's being governed is indefensible. They didn't even stick with the whole "Conservatives are weird freaks" for very long. They just arrogantly thought they had it in the bag for the rest of the election after humoring that for only a couple of weeks
Ghordo
2024-12-11 14:38:28 +0000 UTCIt's not impossible- Johnson basically did this to Humphrey in 1968. Kamala was and is an ASS candidate, but her messaging being as horrifically noncommittal, in an election where EVERYONE knew that Biden was a millstone. I know there's some dark party personnel politics.
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-11 14:31:43 +0000 UTCelvira mentioned
cori
2024-12-11 14:29:17 +0000 UTCPerlstein interview >>>>
Johnny Monday
2024-12-11 14:17:56 +0000 UTCThis rocks
Paul Thompson
2024-12-11 14:17:27 +0000 UTCI appreciate the list of sources and the crediting of scholars’ work.
Patrick Allen
2024-12-11 14:08:13 +0000 UTCTake a lap
FA
2024-12-11 14:02:44 +0000 UTCThe needle drops- dang imma want a playlist at the end of all this.
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-11 13:27:10 +0000 UTCO BLOCK POPULATED BY LEMON PARTY PARTICIPANTS HAHAHAHA
glieb
2024-12-11 13:24:41 +0000 UTCMy parents listened to Focus on the Family when I was young. Pretty odd, since we were Catholic (they are still devout), and there was quite a bit of anti-Papist "Whore of Babylon" content that was confusing to me ("Mom, do we worship the devil?"). Hey, it was the 80s. Anyways, they stopped listening after a while, probably when they realized a lot of their friends were also listening and decided to leave the Church for some of the more "fun" evangelical denominations.
demonsweat
2024-12-11 13:23:25 +0000 UTC🤠 El-vi-ra 🎶
drewb
2024-12-11 13:20:03 +0000 UTCFelix Mindset Returns 🔥
Tim O'Connor
2024-12-11 13:06:29 +0000 UTCHELL YEAH
The True Horror
2024-12-11 13:02:08 +0000 UTCWe wish her well
MATT TRIANO
2024-12-11 13:00:55 +0000 UTCIdk about that- I think he was right that the senate was lost, and the house was narrowly going to be close to 50/50. My main takeaway is that Trump isn't Trumpism, and non-college educated voters (while having inscrutable political and cultural beliefs) do have material interests not being met by the democrats. Someday in the future, we'll find out that Biden threatened to outright endorse Trump if she broke with him publicly on his foreign or domestic policy, depressing democrat turnout.
Leonardo Restrepo
2024-12-11 12:55:33 +0000 UTCI like podcast
Peter Boardman
2024-12-11 12:50:21 +0000 UTCCongrats on the release Felix! I'm gonna listen as soon as I'm home from work at approximately 3:04ET
nat
2024-12-11 12:39:28 +0000 UTC24:00 IGY one of my favorite Fagwn tunes. Yacht rock? Possibly
Zach Pierce
2024-12-11 12:31:20 +0000 UTCFelix first speaks at 00:40
Blank
2024-12-11 12:22:09 +0000 UTCOoof this doesn’t work because it was made when it assumed a defeat due to Trump world being freaks, due to ettingermentum being WRONG on predicting this election. Not a genius, he just got lucky when others were wrong. Turns out being a freak wins, and the normal people lost, and Dobbs wasn’t that important
Julian Perez
2024-12-11 12:19:59 +0000 UTCBeen ready for this Felix series LFG!
CS
2024-12-11 12:17:41 +0000 UTCShe's so many women. He can't find the one who was his fren.
Ben Kamal
2024-12-11 12:16:24 +0000 UTCMany say it's the most beautiful series
Christian Johnson
2024-12-11 12:15:46 +0000 UTC🙌
Christian Johnson
2024-12-11 12:15:16 +0000 UTCCame at a good time. Im freakin pumped. Been drinking green tea all god damned day
Chris
2024-12-11 12:13:34 +0000 UTCLet's go baby
TugNuggins
2024-12-11 12:09:45 +0000 UTCLet’s goooooo
McMiller
2024-12-11 12:08:38 +0000 UTCHow’d they know?
Zach Pierce
2024-12-11 12:07:27 +0000 UTCFourth!
Tom Stevenson
2024-12-11 12:07:27 +0000 UTCMy boy pussy is quaking for this slop, can’t wait to look for cum with a black light with this!
Shawn
2024-12-11 12:07:16 +0000 UTCwe love a new series don’t we folks
That’s Crazy
2024-12-11 12:04:52 +0000 UTCFresh slop
Tyler Joseph
2024-12-11 12:04:40 +0000 UTCNo sleep for me I guess.
Markus Kraköwski
2024-12-11 12:04:17 +0000 UTC
